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Promising strategy to help vaccines outsmart HIV
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
New research highlights an ingenious method to ensure the body effectively reacts when infected with the highly-evasive HIV virus that causes AIDS. The method involves the use of cytomegalovirus as a vector to help a vaccine better instruct T cells how to identify and fight the virus.<img src ...
Modulating the immune system to combat metastatic cancer
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Researchers have found that regulatory T cells that infiltrate tumors express proteins that can be targeted with therapeutic antibodies.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/oMcJAKQCx-c" height="1" width="1"/> ...
New fluorescent tools for cancer diagnosis
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Researchers have developed a multicolor fluorescence labeling method that can be used to visualize miRNAs in tissue sections, such as those recovered from biopsies.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/7wNPRAjjhC4" height="1" width=" ...
Youth with type 2 diabetes at much higher risk for heart, kidney disease
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The news about youth and diabetes keeps getting worse. The latest data shows that children with type 2 diabetes are at high risk to develop heart, kidney and eye problems faster and at a higher rate than adults with diabetes.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_me ...
Hormone levels may provide key to understanding psychological disorders in women
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Women at a particular stage in their monthly menstrual cycle may be more vulnerable to some of the psychological side-effects associated with stressful experiences, according to a study from UCL.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/XD2H4dBbV2E" he ...
Proteins in migration: New animal model provides important clues on mechanisms of Parkinson's disease
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Scientists have developed a novel experimental model that reproduces for the first time this pattern of alpha-synuclein brain spreading and provides important clues on the mechanisms underlying this pathological process. They triggered the production of human alpha-synuclein in the lower rat bra ...
Cause of infantile amnesia revealed: New neuron formation could increase capacity for new learning, at expense of old memories
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New research presented today shows that formation of new neurons in the hippocampus -- a brain region known for its importance in learning and remembering -- could cause forgetting of old memories by causing a reorganization of existing brain circuits. Researchers argue this reorganization could ...
New recommendations for management of high blood glucose in hospitalized patients
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
High blood glucose is associated with poor outcomes in hospitalized patients, and use of intensive insulin therapy (IIT) to control hyperglycemia is a common practice in hospitals. But the recent evidence does not show a consistent benefit and even shows harms associated with the use of IIT, acc ...
Young children who miss well-child visits are more likely to be hospitalized
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Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the risk of hospitalization compared to children who attended most of their visits, according to a new study.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/N2LZKWF6Z7U" ...
Hormone replacement therapy: British Menopause Society and Women's Health Concern release updated guidelines
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
The British Menopause Society and Women's Health Concern have released updated guidelines on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) to provide clarity around the role of HRT, the benefits and the risks. The new guidelines appear in the society's flagship title, Menopause International, published by S ...
New method for predicting cancer virulence
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A new way of tackling cancer and predicting tumor virulence are has been reported by a team of researchers. The scientists have shown that, in all cancers, an aberrant activation of numerous genes specific to other tissues occurs. For example, in lung cancers, the tumorous cells express genes sp ...
Discovery of how a key enzyme of the spliceosome exerts its controlling function
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To sustain life, processes in biological cells have to be strictly controlled both in time and in space. Researchers have elucidated a previously unknown mechanism that regulates one of the essential processes accompanying gene expression in higher organisms. In humans, errors in this control me ...
Scientists put bowel cancer under the microscope
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Researchers have begun a two-year study which could help prolong the lives of people with colorectal tumors.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/euVQ3eABixY" height="1" width="1"/> ...
Help at hand for schizophrenics
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
How can healthy people who hear voices help schizophrenics? Finding the answer for this is at the center of research conducted by a group of scientists in Norway.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/p2oeT3Horwc" height="1" width="1& ...
Nano-needles for cells: Tiny needles can force medicine into cells, even when they resist taking it
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Nano-sized needles developed by researchers in Norway can force medicine into cells, even when the cell membranes offer resistance. The needles will make it easier to study the effects of medicines on cells.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/qCoP1Df_ ...
New insights contradict promising Alzheimer's research
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Approximately a year ago, the journal Science published an article about bexarotene as a potential Alzheimer's drug -- a significant breakthrough and an important starting point for further Alzheimer's research. Now other researchers have tested this candidate drug in various Alzheimer's animal ...
New microsphere-based methods for detecting HIV antibodies
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Detection of HIV antibodies is used to diagnose HIV infection and monitor trials of experimental HIV/AIDS vaccines. New, more sensitive detection systems being developed use microspheres to capture HIV antibodies and can measure even small amounts of multiple antibodies at one time.<img src=& ...
Immune cell activation in multiple sclerosis: New indicator molecules visualize activation of auto-aggressive T cells
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Biological processes are generally based on events at the molecular and cellular level. To understand what happens in the course of infections, diseases or normal bodily functions, scientists would need to examine individual cells and their activity directly in the tissue. The development of new ...
A new strategy required in the search for Alzheimer's drugs?
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
In the search for medication against Alzheimer's disease, scientists have focused on -- among other factors -- drugs that can break down Amyloid beta (A-beta). After all, it is the accumulation of A-beta that causes the known plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. The starting point for ...
Research aims for insecticide that targets malaria mosquitoes
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A team of scientists is working toward an insecticide that would target malaria-carrying mosquitoes but do no harm to other organisms.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/D_zc5l0uOh4" height="1" width="1"/> ...
More than one in five parents believe they have little influence in preventing teens from using illicit substances
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
A new report indicates that more than one in five parents of teens aged 12 to 17 (22.3 percent) think what they say has little influence on whether or not their child uses illicit substances, tobacco, or alcohol. This report by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ( ...
Infantile myofibromatosis: First drug targets in childhood genetic tumor disorder
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Two mutations central to the development of infantile myofibromatosis (IM) -- a disorder characterized by multiple tumors involving the skin, bone, and soft tissue—may provide new therapeutic targets, according to researchers.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/he ...
New coating method accelerates bonding with bone three times faster
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Researchers in Japan have developed a coating method which accelerates bonding with bone by three times.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/4zjNd98qBhU" height="1" width="1"/> ...
Voices Gives Illiterate Access to the Internet
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.e-agriculture.org
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EASYPol: resources for policy making www.fao.org/easypol
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.e-agriculture.org
<p>EASYPol is a web-based multilingual publishing series and knowledge sharing platform of freely downloadable resources for policy making in agriculture, rural development and food security.</p>
<p>These resources focus on policy findings, methodological tools and capacity de ...
An Assessment of Market Information Systems in East Africa
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.e-agriculture.org
<p>This briefing paper presents the results of an assessment carried out to explore the current use of sustainable (without on-going donor support) and scalable (potentially to millions of farmers) agricultural market price information systems (MIS) in Africa, with a particular focus on E ...
Scientists Map the Fungi on Your Feet
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.medicinenet.com
Title: Scientists Map the Fungi on Your Feet<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/22/2013 2:35:00 PM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Fish Oil Pills Might Cut Diabetes Risk, Researchers Say
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.medicinenet.com
Title: Fish Oil Pills Might Cut Diabetes Risk, Researchers Say<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/22/2013 2:35:00 PM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Abused Children at Risk for Obesity as Adults: Study
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.medicinenet.com
Title: Abused Children at Risk for Obesity as Adults: Study<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/22/2013 12:35:00 PM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
American Cancer Society Celebrates 100 Years of Progress
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.medicinenet.com
Title: American Cancer Society Celebrates 100 Years of Progress<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/22/2013 2:36:00 PM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Cost of Treating Strokes in U.S. Could Soar to $180B Annually by 2030: Report
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.medicinenet.com
Title: Cost of Treating Strokes in U.S. Could Soar to $180B Annually by 2030: Report<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/22/2013 12:35:00 PM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Underactive Thyroid and Heart Failure a Bad Combination: Study
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.medicinenet.com
Title: Underactive Thyroid and Heart Failure a Bad Combination: Study<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/22/2013 2:35:00 PM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Your Pooch Could Raise Your Home's Bacteria Count
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.medicinenet.com
Title: Your Pooch Could Raise Your Home's Bacteria Count<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/22/2013 6:35:00 PM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Health Tip: Caring for Baby's Heat Rash
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Title: Health Tip: Caring for Baby's Heat Rash<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/23/2013 8:35:00 AM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Too Few Kids Use Fast-Food Calorie Info, Study Finds
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Title: Too Few Kids Use Fast-Food Calorie Info, Study Finds<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/23/2013 10:35:00 AM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
U.S. Teen Birth Rate Plummets: Report
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.medicinenet.com
Title: U.S. Teen Birth Rate Plummets: Report<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/23/2013 10:35:00 AM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
CT Scans Reduce Lung Cancer Deaths, Study Confirms
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.medicinenet.com
Title: CT Scans Reduce Lung Cancer Deaths, Study Confirms<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/22/2013 6:36:00 PM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Docs Use 3-D Printer to Create Lifesaving Airway Device for Infant
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Title: Docs Use 3-D Printer to Create Lifesaving Airway Device for Infant<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/22/2013 6:35:00 PM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Having Both Migraines, Depression May Mean Smaller Brain
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Title: Having Both Migraines, Depression May Mean Smaller Brain<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/22/2013 4:35:00 PM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Migraine, Chronic Back Pain Tied to Higher Suicide Risk
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Title: Migraine, Chronic Back Pain Tied to Higher Suicide Risk<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/22/2013 4:35:00 PM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Simple Steps Can Protect Pets in Weather Disasters
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Title: Simple Steps Can Protect Pets in Weather Disasters<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/22/2013 2:36:00 PM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Health Tip: Help Prevent Water Contamination
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via www.medicinenet.com
Title: Health Tip: Help Prevent Water Contamination<br />Category: Health News<br />Created: 5/23/2013 8:35:00 AM<br />Last Editorial Review: 5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM ...
Scientists make breast cancer advance that turns previous thinking on its head
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Scientists have made an advance in breast cancer research which shows how some enzymes released by cancerous cells could have a protective function.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/IYP7rLbvft4" height="1" width="1"/> ...
Future doctors unaware of their obesity bias
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Two out of five medical students have an unconscious bias against obese people, according to a new study.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/dCBmzU0I0Dg" height="1" width="1"/> ...
Heart healthy lifestyle may cut kidney disease patients' risk of kidney failure
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Compared with kidney disease patients who had zero or one heart healthy lifestyle component in the ideal range, those with two, three, and four ideal factors had progressively lower risks for kidney failure over four years. No kidney disease patients with five to seven ideal factors developed ki ...
Research identifies a way to make cancer cells more responsive to chemotherapy
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Breast cancer characterized as "triple negative" carries a poor prognosis, with limited treatment options. In some cases, chemotherapy doesn't kill the cancer cells the way it's supposed to. New research explains why some cancer cells don't respond to chemotherapy, and identifies a mec ...
Noninvasive detection, diagnosis of oral cancer
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More effective detection and diagnosis of oral cancer could result from an advance in noninvasive imaging of epithelial tissue. The research is thought to have the potential to change the way doctors look for precancerous and cancerous areas in a patient’s mouth.<img src="http://fe ...
Technique to detect breast cancer in urine developed
veröffentlicht am Fri, 24 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Medical researchers have developed a new screening method that uses urinalysis to diagnose breast cancer – and determine its severity – before it could be detected with a mammogram.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/TLw9Z37zgM4" heig ...
Genomic analysis lends insight to prostate cancer
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Researchers have used next generation genomic analysis to determine that some of the more aggressive prostate cancer tumors have similar genetic origins, which may help in predicting cancer progression.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/v--B1Xu51cw&q ...
Cradle turns smartphone into handheld biosensor
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Researchers and physicians in the field could soon run on-the-spot tests for environmental toxins, medical diagnostics, food safety and more with their smartphones. Researchers have developed a cradle and app for the iPhone that uses the phone's built-in camera and processing power as a biosenso ...
When oxygen is short, EGFR prevents maturation of cancer-fighting miRNAs
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Even while being dragged to its destruction inside a cell, a cancer-promoting growth factor receptor fires away, sending signals that thwart the development of tumor-suppressing microRNAs before it's dissolved, researchers have reported.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedai ...
Vaccine blackjack: IL-21 critical to fight against viral infections
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Scientists have shown that an immune regulatory molecule called IL-21 is needed for long-lasting antibody responses in mice against viral infections.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/fI5vU_LEIYU" height="1" width="1"/> ...
Scientists discover how rapamycin slows cell growth
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
University of Montreal researchers have discovered a novel molecular mechanism that can potentially slow the progression of some cancers and other diseases of abnormal growth. In the May 23 edition of the prestigious journal Cell, scientists have explained how they found that the anti-cancer and ...
Ferrets, pigs susceptible to H7N9 avian influenza virus
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Chinese and US scientists have used a virus isolated from a person who died from H7N9 avian influenza infection to determine whether the virus could infect and be transmitted between ferrets. Ferrets are often used as a mammalian model in influenza research, and efficient transmission of influen ...
Biophysicists measure mechanism that determines fate of living cells
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
For the first time, biophysicists have measured the molecular force required to mechanically transmit function-regulating signals within a cell. A new laboratory method, named the tension gauge tether approach, has made it possible to detect and measure the mechanics of the single-molecule inter ...
Cinnamon compound has potential ability to prevent Alzheimer's
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Cinnamon: Can the red-brown spice with the unmistakable fragrance and variety of uses offer an important benefit? The common baking spice might hold the key to delaying the onset of -- or warding off -- the effects of Alzheimer's disease.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceda ...
Drug reverses Alzheimer's disease deficits in mice
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An anti-cancer drug reverses memory deficits in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model, new research shows. The article reviewed previously published findings on the drug bexarotene, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use in cutaneous T cell lymphoma.<img src="http://feeds.f ...
Discarded immune cells induce the relocation of stem cells
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
The study reveals a surprising coordination between two fundamental body systems, the immune and the hematopoietic. The study has implications for the understanding of metastasis, because malignant stem cells involved in tumor formation could take advantage of this mechanism.<img src="ht ...
New screening approach uncovers potential alternative drug therapies for neuroblastoma
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Nearly two-thirds of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma -- a common tumor that forms in the nerve cells of children -- cannot be cured using tumor-killing cancer drugs. A new study reveals a new genomic approach to screen for compounds that inhibit tumor growth by causing cancer cells to diff ...
Molecule that triggers sensation of itch discovered
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Scientists report they have discovered in mouse studies that a small molecule released in the spinal cord triggers a process that is later experienced in the brain as the sensation of itch.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/x_3jku_kk-s" height=& ...
Powerful new method IDs therapeutic antibodies
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Scientists have devised a powerful new technique for finding antibodies that have a desired biological effect. The newly reported technique should greatly speed the process of discovering medicines, diagnostics and laboratory reagents.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily ...
Multiple research teams unable to confirm high-profile Alzheimer's study
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Teams of highly respected Alzheimer’s researchers failed to replicate what appeared to be breakthrough results for the treatment of this brain disease when they were published last year in the journal Science.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/ ...
NIH scientists discover molecule triggers sensation of itch
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via www.nih.gov
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health report they have discovered in mouse studies that a small molecule released in the spinal cord triggers a process that is later experienced in the brain as the sensation of itch. ...
Webinar: The Face Behind the App – Freedom Fone
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via www.e-agriculture.org
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Schools should provide students with daily physical activity, experts say
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A new report from the Institute of Medicine says schools should be responsible for helping pupils engage in at least 60 minutes of vigorous or moderate intensity activity during each school day.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/H7ufPzN7utE" hei ...
common childhood asthma not rooted in allergens, inflammation
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via feeds.sciencedaily.com
Allergens? No. Inflammation? No. An over-active gene that interrupts lipid synthesis appears to be the cause of 20-30% childhood asthma cases.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/~4/EI8IT3SiGRY" height="1" width="1"/> ...
Webinar: Mobile M&E apps for Agriculture Development Projects
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via www.e-agriculture.org
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USAID's FACET project hosted a webinar that looked at mobile monitoring and evaluation (M&E) apps that are being used or have the potential to be used in agriculture development projects. It was based on the forthcoming briefing paper on the same subject written by Alice Li ...
Webinar: ICT for Outgrowers and Input Suppliers (2 webinars)
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via www.e-agriculture.org
<p>USAID's FACET project hosted two webinars that looked at how ICT applications are currently being used to advance the agriculture industry in Africa. Each of the free online events promoted a respective topic for separate forthcoming FACET project briefing papers.</p>
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Webinar: Mobile Finance in Agricultural Value Chains
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via www.e-agriculture.org
<p>USAID's FACET project hosted a webinar that looked at how mobile finance (mobile money, mobile banking and mobile phone based applications) is changing the understanding of value chain finance and the benefits it can bring to all stakeholders along the value chain, specifically agribus ...
Webinar: Interactive Radio
veröffentlicht am Thu, 23 May 2013 via www.e-agriculture.org
<p>This webinar occurred on <strong>Tuesday, February 12th at 9am EST</strong> (14.00 GMT, 17.00 EAT). It was hosted by USAID’s FACET project and explored how agriculture development projects can use mobile and other technologies to enhance the impact of r ...
